1970 914/6 FS Options

[Cal]

Here's a nice looking 6 for sale on EBay with a very cool original color plaid interior.....I've never seen an interior like this on a 6 before. Looks like a great price if the miles and description is correct. The owner had it listed with a BIN price of $60K.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322012653630?ssPag...&rmvSB=true

[Tom_T]

EDIT - Please see my corrected Interior color info. at post #11 below.

Hey Cal -

That's not an OE color for /4 or -6 - more of a creme than the stock beige in leather or vinyl leatherette, nor was that fabric on the inserts available from the factory even by special order AFAIK.

If it's your tastes, then have at it, but IMHO with the values of original -6's so high & rising, it's a shame not to have reupholstered in in the OE Beige, & that may explain a BIN of only $60k. The cost to do it with that color combo & insert fabric would've been the same as correct OE colors - unless the owner got some "deal" on it.

I know, I know - his car & his check - just sayin'! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

PS - The COA says Beige with Dogtooth (Houndstooth) insert, but that plaid isn't the Porsche Houndstooth fabric for the era, from what I can see (see pix at evil-bay ad).

PSS - It looks like they have the #503 Dark Tan driver & passenger floor mats, with standard & light tan carpet everywhere else - whereas both would be all in tan or dark tan. EDIT - Seller says it's due to fading of other carpet areas.

If it is dark tan (??) - then since my `73 is the Dark Tan, I'll buy the D & P mats (although I'd have to modify the P side to the longer 72-76 style), if the eventual buyer wants to get tan ones! ....open offer! Autos International & LAkewell.com have the correct Tan loop pile carpet sets BTW.

PSSS - Seller says it's the original interior in his write-up, but the tan is lighter than the carpet tan, but should be the same or darker - I know from my 73 & from Bowlsby's samples at this link....

http://bowlsby.net/914/Classic/PaintFabrics.htm

However, the close-up interior shots could be showing the correct Houndstooth, but I can't see it in enough detail with those medium-quality pix. Since the Beige/Tan color is too pale, I still think it's not the OE interior as the seller claims.

Something else that doesn't make sense on this car are it's CA plates - 539YDW - my plates for my 73 2L sold new on 11/6/72 is 530GVS & on since new & still. So any way you cut the CA-DMV's numbering sequence - changing the letters in sequence after hitting 999xxx (which is the way IIRC they do/did it) - so YDW comes after GVS, or by running thru the letters sequentially for each number - 539 comes after 530.

So those have to be replacement plates from sometime after Fall `72 .... why? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I'd also ask the seller for documentation since day 1 to substantiate that it's not 100k on it (or 200K with a full resto?).

So check all the usual stuff out first.

Good Luck! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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